The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 111
If one sat down to supper, the others sat down at the same instant.
Who acts: one, others · What happens: sit down · To what, where: same instant
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 sat | mark |
| 2 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 supper | case |
| 6 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 others | det |
| 9 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 sat | compound:prt |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 instant | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 instant | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 instant | amod |
| 15 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | one | to supper; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | the others | the same instant | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at instant=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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